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National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1866-05-19, vol. 27 iss. 02

National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1866-05-19, vol. 27 iss. 02

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ational JViiti^labEfu f teittefc
VOL. XXVII. NO. 2.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1866.
WHOLE NO. 1.354.
•3f.rtio.tat: gurti-cf towvji Stanton..
MMKKICAl. ASTI-SL1TERT SOCIETY,
THE STANDARD,
AMERICIN \KTI-S1AVFRY SOCIETY.
Tuesday. Morning: Session.
The President. Wi.-.;i.t.-,i, I'uit.tj-i's, in Ihe elm
[The letters, and resolution-;, read at the oponit
of the s.-s,:-...i. Iiy iho IV.Lrfioi-.N'T, w ,-rc printed 1:
wee);. Ilev. O. B. FiiOTnixoiiAM was the lb
Let the few words that I have to say this inert,
vas Andrew Johnson, then our Vice-..'resident
v'iio said lleii we were i-mv in tbe third stage nl'.in
var. We are now precisely in that stage of on
:-■: bu- lb..- ..,!:.; : (■; I.:- :, :!;,,!■■)■ Alili-i'ierHI ill
round. It was in the up
• of principles. It was not man against man
thought against thought, trul.li against false
That battle was fought for well nigh a gen
again e,puttied, in i.bat battle we were victorious,
Tho enemy were routed, horse, foot, dragoons, an,
infesting liemts. We brought all the powers o.
thought, of knowledge, of argument, of persuasion
of sentiment. ,ii :■■ ji.iig, D,- moral eonvioli, m, ol
of mankind,
take, a blunde:
■ound3 of sentiment, ,
, as D i ichthyosaurus,
it blank, and
o comes for-
L tb.oitglit,, of
Garrison (applause),
a man who has been faithful in thought and wore
and eh"-!., from the lirst ,biy of his conscious lift
until now. (..enerations hence will pay him a no,
bier taibuto than wo can render. Tho iirst stag*
of the war has been fought out. The question car
to say be- itself it I Iho liar of human reason.
The next stag,- of the war was the stage ofblood
Slavery challenged us to light it in tho field, ant
we met it there. We prostrated it there. Slavery
ceased to call itseil' an idea, ceased to call il
doctrine, hut called itself a government, an c
haven
a the third stage of tl
meet slavery as an idei
t slavery organized :
ehav(
slavery as a system—as a condition of societ;
our other warfare—I will not say goes for n<
because it goes for everything-—but was ini
tory and preliminary to this grand final i
which must decide the question once for all. If
slavery had been merely a doctrine, there u
be no more slavery in America. If slavery
, merely
and I
. shivery i.
Tho (
settled that. But slavery it
of ton
Slavery is often called :
i Ihe law abolishes the it
Amendment of the Const
,f tin)i
,e it. But the
aliuot settle
.■.'admitted ,
,at all the State laws sot
hed to-morrow—wiped
'ould slavery bo dead
Amendment to the Coi
; is more than that. Suppose
fall.
the bones and the blood of this people. It is
-all tlnir hi.-.(ory, in all their traditions. It has in;
gh'd itself wifb all their reliances for the preset
with all their hopes for the future It has dot.
mined all their policy. It has coitstnnled tl,.
social life. Their domestic life is dictated by it
all its details—the education of their sons a
daughters—their family discipline. It is an ins
ttttion that hits seized and math, over to itself all
the prejudices of inee, of aristocracy, of family, of
■wealth, of political prestige and power.
Now the question is, not how is tin- doeliiu.
be exploded ; not how is the institution to be 01
thrown ; but how is the social system to be en
cated.
almost say Unit nolhing essential has b(
Here then is our battle. We can overthrow sla'
as a social system only by social onslaughts, only
by rcvolulioni/.ing the actual condition of society,
only by utterly abolishing and destroying its political prestige, its social prerogatives ; only by turning it upside down and inside out, making the last
to bo first and the first last, tho great to be littk
an.I
t that, but by
One great agency which has in an grated this work mei
. pbo
faithfully, courageously, well, is the r'roedmen's ?
oolitic-
or in apology foe it. but. simply to show what it
Let me read you a lev.- of their figures. This association have already in tbe field HOI schools, 760
and in supplies nearly $368,000. In moi
double the amount of money. But their <
not to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked
der aid for material distress. It is not mere
theso people,
to the South are the best brail
heart of our Northern country.
siasm, is Jistened to at all until tha
these people that we semi down flu
send down the normal school. We S
family. We send down respect for
speot for man, respect for childhoot
liberty, temperance, chastity, manlini
e-M-illoe nil :
■mi do-
the blacks, upon .
talisfcs; because i
all the necessities of
the,
,ople.
laboring- classes and tbe
."lo tins weak having in view
e Southern country ami ol
r the shadow of the sword. Not a sehoc
e where there is not a bayonet. Half a mi
nd the lines of our army, our teacher's liv.
hern South, from the border South, fro
id: try ana I ami Virginia, from ouv teachers, sayiL
-"We hold our positions here upon tin: peri!,
sndents, the other day, his own work being doi
'here he was, to push into the interior and fir
ut new places to locate new schools. He sai.
11 will go; but I may never write you anoth
stter. I take my life in my hand ;" and he cite
lieui by some Union man kindly disposed towar
■eeords, but the truth is this, that the Southe
nen and the Southern women are against us, a
voidd not leave a single plank of our schoolhout
Suppose we could go on, and do this work t
.i.-htoi.
f property, and I
low how to read a
in vote. I do not say that the suffrage is
lie man when tho man is lit for the suffrage,
always fit for tho suffrage ; if he is not, the
e must make him so. The suffrage is an ab-
v.iiethei- the
iiio|)riieUcal elV.vt of : ■ . .
gro. But if you give the i
do your duty.
1 lii, this great anti
jU-aclirubleliess of the pos
i the way of all practical
f you would wave your flag with
y duty."
b by hi.
i slavery. Go,
lethods.
is not to make the black inai
i is to assert the fundamente
lerican institutions :—and tha
1 liberty. (Applause.) Coi
:■ belli:-,
o iii-lie
ifei.ier.slha! oppressed humanity are to be
... '■■! I , ,. ;,, ,.. ■ :-,,;:.; ■:;. ■.,„!.,, :| .,
-■ to lie made straight, and rough places are -
tde plain. We lay that down at the begim
build up a
sliberiy.
i build it
-.itii u
il moans bloodshed and war ; here it me
i-ity and jit ;toe, the itaviug of lite, the mo
_in of noble and of happy men and worn
the throne, the army, the government,
In.hle;
no- glad of thcintvoduefioiioft]
this meeting, for tho reason flu:
that iii.thing short of their p
will give us permanently tho c
■
.iore.l chit.
:' the Presidential e
Said in this country, while
actical observance.
We have some of us been wont to call the Am,
:an people a nation of ingrate;
ysetf, i:
■ullv mail,,-,
■ the
Ihai
in behalf of the class with which I «m e .mnee'ed.
: a: -. ■ b i ■■-..- , ii ■■.'... :,'. ■.■.:'. i . , :. -. |
ind I may almost say, as our friend has remarked
radpoint, I do
andb
leileve
L file black
lther,
:, the ei.i
a years
We might, t
extent, civilize the Southern peoph
make black people feel themselves respectable. We
might secure to tlieintbc rights of property, personal rights, and personal privileges. We might
i to them certain civil rights. That is not
iples that a man should be sate in lbs life,
safe in his person, and should have the privilege of
ing property and holding property under the
vai (oil
ll, Kill
- . "■: ii ■
nstitutions, it would be
rineriea, it fails short O
mough that one should be intelligent, that
should be rich, that he should have a large hoi
n extensive family connection, that he should
tea, without the ballot he is nothing but a
pariah. I should be nothing without the ballot,
because the ballot in America is the pivot—it is
, than the j
s life. A m
u,■-,,.,
.tone'of i
a unless hi
os are all things
partment of social rights, not
ghts ; they are the ftmdaraental rights ; they
ie quintessence of rights. The ballot to "a
is life, is position, is personal prerogative, is
idual prestige, is power. It is a safeguard
mates kin
tetly an
i. And
therefore I say, unless we can give the negro the
ballol, our schools, and all our social influences,
will fail to redeem him from that miserable bondage in which he is held, not by the law, not by
pre-indices, but by the ingrained influences of all
the society in the country where he lives.
I say the ballot with us is everything. It makes
the small man great, and without it the great man
is small. I am not concerned to answer any of the
I do
if he -
3 ballot
up with :
esteem that he will instantly try to
masters who represent to him all the geniloniauli-
uess, all tbe dignity, and woeil.b, and power thai
there is." I do not believe it; but no matter if ht
would. You may say that the ballot would spoi
the negro ; that he would not understand it; that
not believe it; but what if he would ?
:. will In'tin expedient thin;.
dll be immediately a wise
ure he would not abuse il
lint ii might not be 'Z.n: the.
tbecs
s or not—the question is not with us a question
ixpedicncy, of policy, of judiciousness for the n
t up. There
: let out; here
■ made fresh ■;
danger by lifting up tnio i:
before had the privilege or prerogative,
ivil tendencies by new
rought into the field.
We have star ted upo
e. "We shall not. demon
ion; and then I believe i
When shall we be abl
o shall see thatitisGod't
unless he is a traitor to himself. President Joi
ely what he is now—a pro-slavery Deinoci
u is no traitor unless he is a traitor to a ca
or to a cause he ever espoused. Did he e
si; liberty ; On the the euutraryno South'
>re vindictive things against the North t
cm institutions than President Johnson. "
ic traitors—we who confess a principle s
not stand by it. (Applause.) We are t
:h, who come forward and advocate a m
and put in fatal qualifications which sh
theorists. Andrew Johnson is a theorist, a dogniu-
lis notion, his whim, his caprice. We stand
ti principle that is demonstrated by the expe-
■ of mankind. All the battles of the world
for this. Every victory tlntl has been gained has
its victory. If there is any tint it that stands
strafed a:
j o fad
; of God,
at
oeia
1 fact,
a fact o:
i government, t
it is thi
indefil
-iple of
''.'.''
■>-o,
nation
rrji
iitellec
-plan.
"ol"l
z
nd,'
(AP-
■■;.-,. se iii i.iie aba.-ii,-.- ,
Treasurer no ijnaneiul n port would be laid t
fiie meeting. The receipts for the year bad been
about Sll.JtJO, and the expenses about $200 less.
Speech of diaries Lenox Ksinond.
Cha-rles Lenox Beyond, of Salem, Mass., wa
he President, and addressed Ih
rSTl&rli^ing0,
outitry i
d while I also ace
, I do not rise'
1 coulcj wish, may
his morning beeai
iclp forward the i
nen shall be know
virtues and their n
lor or any other ;
I'lulbps, may fie, as alleged by a great
woishippor of the negro;" but I ffat
»f it in the sense in which those writers
; ]"y
color,
but s
imply
beca
is he
IreaM
others.
'"ii'u.
■ond.
ret ha
It ha
litraiii
mfron
> of tit
aple,
to be
civile
edtow
ird t
he bl
true that the colored n
great reader ; but I think
brute ns living among freemen, himself parti.die.
mi iuai'iy tree. This is the condition of the colorec
lan in the United States. As late as this, the 8th
day of May, 1866, with all the testimony borne
nony which has come from' abroad, as well at
j that to this hour the recognition of the rights
the colored man is extremely limited, I will nol
idertake to prove that the colored man is a mar
cause of any efl'orts he may have made liuru.g
e few years of the war. I believed hire
in prior to the rebellion. I have nothi
say now in advocacy of his courage than 1 had
for to the rebellion. Under equal ciri
lebeved then that the colored man ws
s equally with his fellow-countrymen
complexion. Nor shall I attempt bore b
tlifcy or his loyalty. It is an everlasting,
the white A
able t
instance of disloyalty upon the part of
.ii, under circumstance;; which would
ked white men into devils. (Applar
i equality, his identity with the hui
theb
.uld feel that
I believe the
stnlliiyii
want proof of his manhood. I have never believed
ism. I have never believed they oonsidei
under equal cireiimstances to be their i
But I knew that fashion, in our own as ;
countries, was powerful; and I knew that the
America!) pride wis equally powerful; and pride
and fashion in Aur.-rica were satisfied 'vil Ii reducing
the black mau to a slave, and equally satisfied
c of the incentives, none of ther
fiat,:, and characterize, and e;
t. We see that, under unpara
.tthes
icd by the
urded, :
ere not r< Hooted on iml.il a more recent day.
.ay (led Almighty multiply the scenes, and ovunls.
id issues, and tbe moral clashing between the
ithful men of our country and the uid'nithtiil ; may
this class of American people. Oh, sir, what a
i that it should be necessary at
this late hour to call a meeting in the Metropolis
country to consider the question whether it
pedient, whether it is just, whether it is a duty,
i,ether
epublica
lorning that every other right puled before
the right to east the ballot. That the black man is
competent to cast it, President Johnson has proved
clearly than any other man in the country. If,
the contrast was made between him and
Frederick J)ough; .::. a few weeks since, in the city
of Washington, it was not then decided thai the
.rcise u. right of suffrage, the sooner tho
is done awav with altogether, the better.
(Applause.) The best remark I have heard made
" l our country during the last six months, was
.tide by an impartial and talented foreigner in the
l.y of Washington, nil hour after the intci'vicivbo-
veen tin; colored delegation and the President,
hen that distinguished white foreigner said, " For
the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my com-
m." (Laughter and applause.) Itwas a mo-
when I was more than ever proud of mine.
.wed laughter and applause.) But, sir, I do
not believe in pride of complexion at all. Ishould
t of his
mples
.1 of the cur! of.
t-ejudice against
s the ballotj is
ny limited cot
i with this Souther
lady, threw c.
an he should vc
y's feelings wc:
i> Ihe capital, Grant would nei
be. He forgot, too, that wl
is of the war New Orleans git-
,way, and still be
fhioh the future w
i-tbe third city of tho He-
^ which
thought of
compromis
ing his own
lit-hts.
-, of third pi,
i-fciesthat are^n
bat Congrcs
day.
- that this ii
ition end si?
nificanee to this
i people; an
d in tho pi
■ofound analysis
which
■ '
n has givej
i us of the sue
■.•b- of the American stru
ggle, we seo the
me:- of this
meeting. I hold that
i to the Amer
ioiru people
; that (host: will
. repre-
:ee in this si
■ontent ; tli.
.t they protest
ry settlement
: that haw been proposed, either by
I quite agree with and was profoundly impressed
by the view taken by Mr. Fret bin gham, representing the third epoch of this struggle—Ihe struggle
with slavery as a form of civilization, if you will
dignify it with that term, as a form of society ; not
ion, but
; andi
pith the
com
ilative -
truth that it i
i to
.Ught, ]
iot by
not simply by
dis-
;,n, but
by the
that c
nd gives character
' It is f
m that the Soc
iety
lythe
■ aih o-
ible
. amnesty and
1 sufira
go, wJk
the n
itional flag 0c
re was a very sad dev(
med, and the girl gai
t the
jpment of the whole m
)k occasion to inquire
her bonnet became
the reason, from whi
learned, and the Yani
;, that he had given tl
3rvant-giil. Nowlw
the an 1.,-sIuvety plaffoim ; I never heard of his
writing anti-slavery poetry ; but I do say that a
to deny the colored man the ballot.
Now let us seek to put an end to the nrejudke
against color; let us be manly, just, democratic,
and Christian, and then the black man will be allowed the rights of a man ; and it uoeds only that,
and especially to give bint the ballot, to make our
country what it ought to be made, the happiest,
and freest, and nohl
(Applause.)
Speech of Weudell Phillips.
Eev. J. T. SaUtoENT, of Boston, one of th
addressed the Uonvet
follow:
. ■
> of -
The fourth' resolution befoi
here is very grout, substance of truth in
ls which my friend Mr. Eemond has
s touching the colored race. Much as
i have been charged with partiality in
our judgment i
ever to close the lips of an American at thi
against acknowledging the marvelous, wh,
expected development of the characteristics
race, provoked by the events of our civil .
It will be a rare and beautiful credit to the
in] the history of this rebellion, that whil.
> the
blican, Copperhead, Secessionist—
uthet to the name of white ; when
outh, we spokeof tho loyalists and
ckwas loyalty, patrlot-
im, and justice, wittiout an epithet. (Applause.)
ante, magnanimity, saveo itieui alike from treason.
nd from that cowardice which takes the name of
obey, and conceals
To be
cealment. They needed m, disguise. In the first
moments of the war they held their peaco.
said that was cowardice, but Port Hudson and Fort
Wagner stopped that charge, and we have th:
I am harking-/' He would not commit hi
pon the Bide of the South, nor upon the aide t
orth, but continued io leii'k. If ihousuVl.s ant
i that direction during those anxious hours i:
power doubled, by that tenderest of all t:
w and Charles Sumu,
. add 50 per cent, to
ipathy, by disfranchh
their power. Lift i
I, he would have passed
The elements wliieh mai
, Wade Hampton, Stephen
1 the J
tan ever. They have a
ir own States to-day than
:nows that in settiim the
. force
fail are.
traliKO them, then nationality
20,000,000 of loyal people have r,
from this war to bear Jefferson Davis, then nationality is a failure. Adjourn the dispute, and wait
for a better generation. But we have elements, we
have sutlicient strength to ignore Jefferson Davis
and ii thousand like him. if the;: still live; and that
strength i-. justice. (Applause.)
.Now let us face Ihe whole problem. Let us open
our <
;yes wide, and take
in
the whole country.
You
can neither get rid of m
>r can you change the
q leading min
dst
if the South. Battle
iof
men. Nations do not
live ,
ir change by battles :
they live and change by
epochs. The wave ui national change is like the
wave of the generation thirty years ago. God
does not change life-long prejudices, but he takes
room for the fresh young truth to grow. We have
for that before the 5,000,000 of poisoned
aen and treble-p
he midst of the i
e-takei
l fo an
think there is a little mistake in appreciating tho motives of the South on this question. I do not quite believe that die South dreads
simply negro suffrage. It is not there that the
South meets the bight of the question. A negro
voting once a year at the town polling booth, is not,
after all, such an inexpressible evil. It might be
tolerated with a gig-antic and heroic effort of magnanimity. The bight comes later in the programme. Four hundred thousand negroes in
South Carolina., with every adult possessing a vote,
3 at
Columbia
. (Applause.)
l'-T-
not only ,
hunting among
colored blood,
ghei
.- Senators u
Slicers, colo
.nd Kepresentatr
red men. The S
. Columbia
to take his seat
'rat
sifting bes
nd there mi
de him. When
ist be white and i
. a legislative committee
the prop,;:
- the
emselves of the :
railroad contra
ctors, they take ]

'
J. #.&
'$/yi*sC4
ational JViiti^labEfu f teittefc
VOL. XXVII. NO. 2.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1866.
WHOLE NO. 1.354.
•3f.rtio.tat: gurti-cf towvji Stanton..
MMKKICAl. ASTI-SL1TERT SOCIETY,
THE STANDARD,
AMERICIN \KTI-S1AVFRY SOCIETY.
Tuesday. Morning: Session.
The President. Wi.-.;i.t.-,i, I'uit.tj-i's, in Ihe elm
[The letters, and resolution-;, read at the oponit
of the s.-s,:-...i. Iiy iho IV.Lrfioi-.N'T, w ,-rc printed 1:
wee);. Ilev. O. B. FiiOTnixoiiAM was the lb
Let the few words that I have to say this inert,
vas Andrew Johnson, then our Vice-..'resident
v'iio said lleii we were i-mv in tbe third stage nl'.in
var. We are now precisely in that stage of on
:-■: bu- lb..- ..,!:.; : (■; I.:- :, :!;,,!■■)■ Alili-i'ierHI ill
round. It was in the up
• of principles. It was not man against man
thought against thought, trul.li against false
That battle was fought for well nigh a gen
again e,puttied, in i.bat battle we were victorious,
Tho enemy were routed, horse, foot, dragoons, an,
infesting liemts. We brought all the powers o.
thought, of knowledge, of argument, of persuasion
of sentiment. ,ii :■■ ji.iig, D,- moral eonvioli, m, ol
of mankind,
take, a blunde:
■ound3 of sentiment, ,
, as D i ichthyosaurus,
it blank, and
o comes for-
L tb.oitglit,, of
Garrison (applause),
a man who has been faithful in thought and wore
and eh"-!., from the lirst ,biy of his conscious lift
until now. (..enerations hence will pay him a no,
bier taibuto than wo can render. Tho iirst stag*
of the war has been fought out. The question car
to say be- itself it I Iho liar of human reason.
The next stag,- of the war was the stage ofblood
Slavery challenged us to light it in tho field, ant
we met it there. We prostrated it there. Slavery
ceased to call itseil' an idea, ceased to call il
doctrine, hut called itself a government, an c
haven
a the third stage of tl
meet slavery as an idei
t slavery organized :
ehav(
slavery as a system—as a condition of societ;
our other warfare—I will not say goes for n<
because it goes for everything-—but was ini
tory and preliminary to this grand final i
which must decide the question once for all. If
slavery had been merely a doctrine, there u
be no more slavery in America. If slavery
, merely
and I
. shivery i.
Tho (
settled that. But slavery it
of ton
Slavery is often called :
i Ihe law abolishes the it
Amendment of the Const
,f tin)i
,e it. But the
aliuot settle
.■.'admitted ,
,at all the State laws sot
hed to-morrow—wiped
'ould slavery bo dead
Amendment to the Coi
; is more than that. Suppose
fall.
the bones and the blood of this people. It is
-all tlnir hi.-.(ory, in all their traditions. It has in;
gh'd itself wifb all their reliances for the preset
with all their hopes for the future It has dot.
mined all their policy. It has coitstnnled tl,.
social life. Their domestic life is dictated by it
all its details—the education of their sons a
daughters—their family discipline. It is an ins
ttttion that hits seized and math, over to itself all
the prejudices of inee, of aristocracy, of family, of
■wealth, of political prestige and power.
Now the question is, not how is tin- doeliiu.
be exploded ; not how is the institution to be 01
thrown ; but how is the social system to be en
cated.
almost say Unit nolhing essential has b(
Here then is our battle. We can overthrow sla'
as a social system only by social onslaughts, only
by rcvolulioni/.ing the actual condition of society,
only by utterly abolishing and destroying its political prestige, its social prerogatives ; only by turning it upside down and inside out, making the last
to bo first and the first last, tho great to be littk
an.I
t that, but by
One great agency which has in an grated this work mei
. pbo
faithfully, courageously, well, is the r'roedmen's ?
oolitic-
or in apology foe it. but. simply to show what it
Let me read you a lev.- of their figures. This association have already in tbe field HOI schools, 760
and in supplies nearly $368,000. In moi
double the amount of money. But their <
not to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked
der aid for material distress. It is not mere
theso people,
to the South are the best brail
heart of our Northern country.
siasm, is Jistened to at all until tha
these people that we semi down flu
send down the normal school. We S
family. We send down respect for
speot for man, respect for childhoot
liberty, temperance, chastity, manlini
e-M-illoe nil :
■mi do-
the blacks, upon .
talisfcs; because i
all the necessities of
the,
,ople.
laboring- classes and tbe
."lo tins weak having in view
e Southern country ami ol
r the shadow of the sword. Not a sehoc
e where there is not a bayonet. Half a mi
nd the lines of our army, our teacher's liv.
hern South, from the border South, fro
id: try ana I ami Virginia, from ouv teachers, sayiL
-"We hold our positions here upon tin: peri!,
sndents, the other day, his own work being doi
'here he was, to push into the interior and fir
ut new places to locate new schools. He sai.
11 will go; but I may never write you anoth
stter. I take my life in my hand ;" and he cite
lieui by some Union man kindly disposed towar
■eeords, but the truth is this, that the Southe
nen and the Southern women are against us, a
voidd not leave a single plank of our schoolhout
Suppose we could go on, and do this work t
.i.-htoi.
f property, and I
low how to read a
in vote. I do not say that the suffrage is
lie man when tho man is lit for the suffrage,
always fit for tho suffrage ; if he is not, the
e must make him so. The suffrage is an ab-
v.iiethei- the
iiio|)riieUcal elV.vt of : ■ . .
gro. But if you give the i
do your duty.
1 lii, this great anti
jU-aclirubleliess of the pos
i the way of all practical
f you would wave your flag with
y duty."
b by hi.
i slavery. Go,
lethods.
is not to make the black inai
i is to assert the fundamente
lerican institutions :—and tha
1 liberty. (Applause.) Coi
:■ belli:-,
o iii-lie
ifei.ier.slha! oppressed humanity are to be
... '■■! I , ,. ;,, ,.. ■ :-,,;:.; ■:;. ■.,„!.,, :| .,
-■ to lie made straight, and rough places are -
tde plain. We lay that down at the begim
build up a
sliberiy.
i build it
-.itii u
il moans bloodshed and war ; here it me
i-ity and jit ;toe, the itaviug of lite, the mo
_in of noble and of happy men and worn
the throne, the army, the government,
In.hle;
no- glad of thcintvoduefioiioft]
this meeting, for tho reason flu:
that iii.thing short of their p
will give us permanently tho c
■
.iore.l chit.
:' the Presidential e
Said in this country, while
actical observance.
We have some of us been wont to call the Am,
:an people a nation of ingrate;
ysetf, i:
■ullv mail,,-,
■ the
Ihai
in behalf of the class with which I «m e .mnee'ed.
: a: -. ■ b i ■■-..- , ii ■■.'... :,'. ■.■.:'. i . , :. -. |
ind I may almost say, as our friend has remarked
radpoint, I do
andb
leileve
L file black
lther,
:, the ei.i
a years
We might, t
extent, civilize the Southern peoph
make black people feel themselves respectable. We
might secure to tlieintbc rights of property, personal rights, and personal privileges. We might
i to them certain civil rights. That is not
iples that a man should be sate in lbs life,
safe in his person, and should have the privilege of
ing property and holding property under the
vai (oil
ll, Kill
- . "■: ii ■
nstitutions, it would be
rineriea, it fails short O
mough that one should be intelligent, that
should be rich, that he should have a large hoi
n extensive family connection, that he should
tea, without the ballot he is nothing but a
pariah. I should be nothing without the ballot,
because the ballot in America is the pivot—it is
, than the j
s life. A m
u,■-,,.,
.tone'of i
a unless hi
os are all things
partment of social rights, not
ghts ; they are the ftmdaraental rights ; they
ie quintessence of rights. The ballot to "a
is life, is position, is personal prerogative, is
idual prestige, is power. It is a safeguard
mates kin
tetly an
i. And
therefore I say, unless we can give the negro the
ballol, our schools, and all our social influences,
will fail to redeem him from that miserable bondage in which he is held, not by the law, not by
pre-indices, but by the ingrained influences of all
the society in the country where he lives.
I say the ballot with us is everything. It makes
the small man great, and without it the great man
is small. I am not concerned to answer any of the
I do
if he -
3 ballot
up with :
esteem that he will instantly try to
masters who represent to him all the geniloniauli-
uess, all tbe dignity, and woeil.b, and power thai
there is." I do not believe it; but no matter if ht
would. You may say that the ballot would spoi
the negro ; that he would not understand it; that
not believe it; but what if he would ?
:. will In'tin expedient thin;.
dll be immediately a wise
ure he would not abuse il
lint ii might not be 'Z.n: the.
tbecs
s or not—the question is not with us a question
ixpedicncy, of policy, of judiciousness for the n
t up. There
: let out; here
■ made fresh ■;
danger by lifting up tnio i:
before had the privilege or prerogative,
ivil tendencies by new
rought into the field.
We have star ted upo
e. "We shall not. demon
ion; and then I believe i
When shall we be abl
o shall see thatitisGod't
unless he is a traitor to himself. President Joi
ely what he is now—a pro-slavery Deinoci
u is no traitor unless he is a traitor to a ca
or to a cause he ever espoused. Did he e
si; liberty ; On the the euutraryno South'
>re vindictive things against the North t
cm institutions than President Johnson. "
ic traitors—we who confess a principle s
not stand by it. (Applause.) We are t
:h, who come forward and advocate a m
and put in fatal qualifications which sh
theorists. Andrew Johnson is a theorist, a dogniu-
lis notion, his whim, his caprice. We stand
ti principle that is demonstrated by the expe-
■ of mankind. All the battles of the world
for this. Every victory tlntl has been gained has
its victory. If there is any tint it that stands
strafed a:
j o fad
; of God,
at
oeia
1 fact,
a fact o:
i government, t
it is thi
indefil
-iple of
''.'.''
■>-o,
nation
rrji
iitellec
-plan.
"ol"l
z
nd,'
(AP-
■■;.-,. se iii i.iie aba.-ii,-.- ,
Treasurer no ijnaneiul n port would be laid t
fiie meeting. The receipts for the year bad been
about Sll.JtJO, and the expenses about $200 less.
Speech of diaries Lenox Ksinond.
Cha-rles Lenox Beyond, of Salem, Mass., wa
he President, and addressed Ih
rSTl&rli^ing0,
outitry i
d while I also ace
, I do not rise'
1 coulcj wish, may
his morning beeai
iclp forward the i
nen shall be know
virtues and their n
lor or any other ;
I'lulbps, may fie, as alleged by a great
woishippor of the negro;" but I ffat
»f it in the sense in which those writers
; ]"y
color,
but s
imply
beca
is he
IreaM
others.
'"ii'u.
■ond.
ret ha
It ha
litraiii
mfron
> of tit
aple,
to be
civile
edtow
ird t
he bl
true that the colored n
great reader ; but I think
brute ns living among freemen, himself parti.die.
mi iuai'iy tree. This is the condition of the colorec
lan in the United States. As late as this, the 8th
day of May, 1866, with all the testimony borne
nony which has come from' abroad, as well at
j that to this hour the recognition of the rights
the colored man is extremely limited, I will nol
idertake to prove that the colored man is a mar
cause of any efl'orts he may have made liuru.g
e few years of the war. I believed hire
in prior to the rebellion. I have nothi
say now in advocacy of his courage than 1 had
for to the rebellion. Under equal ciri
lebeved then that the colored man ws
s equally with his fellow-countrymen
complexion. Nor shall I attempt bore b
tlifcy or his loyalty. It is an everlasting,
the white A
able t
instance of disloyalty upon the part of
.ii, under circumstance;; which would
ked white men into devils. (Applar
i equality, his identity with the hui
theb
.uld feel that
I believe the
stnlliiyii
want proof of his manhood. I have never believed
ism. I have never believed they oonsidei
under equal cireiimstances to be their i
But I knew that fashion, in our own as ;
countries, was powerful; and I knew that the
America!) pride wis equally powerful; and pride
and fashion in Aur.-rica were satisfied 'vil Ii reducing
the black mau to a slave, and equally satisfied
c of the incentives, none of ther
fiat,:, and characterize, and e;
t. We see that, under unpara
.tthes
icd by the
urded, :
ere not r< Hooted on iml.il a more recent day.
.ay (led Almighty multiply the scenes, and ovunls.
id issues, and tbe moral clashing between the
ithful men of our country and the uid'nithtiil ; may
this class of American people. Oh, sir, what a
i that it should be necessary at
this late hour to call a meeting in the Metropolis
country to consider the question whether it
pedient, whether it is just, whether it is a duty,
i,ether
epublica
lorning that every other right puled before
the right to east the ballot. That the black man is
competent to cast it, President Johnson has proved
clearly than any other man in the country. If,
the contrast was made between him and
Frederick J)ough; .::. a few weeks since, in the city
of Washington, it was not then decided thai the
.rcise u. right of suffrage, the sooner tho
is done awav with altogether, the better.
(Applause.) The best remark I have heard made
" l our country during the last six months, was
.tide by an impartial and talented foreigner in the
l.y of Washington, nil hour after the intci'vicivbo-
veen tin; colored delegation and the President,
hen that distinguished white foreigner said, " For
the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my com-
m." (Laughter and applause.) Itwas a mo-
when I was more than ever proud of mine.
.wed laughter and applause.) But, sir, I do
not believe in pride of complexion at all. Ishould
t of his
mples
.1 of the cur! of.
t-ejudice against
s the ballotj is
ny limited cot
i with this Souther
lady, threw c.
an he should vc
y's feelings wc:
i> Ihe capital, Grant would nei
be. He forgot, too, that wl
is of the war New Orleans git-
,way, and still be
fhioh the future w
i-tbe third city of tho He-
^ which
thought of
compromis
ing his own
lit-hts.
-, of third pi,
i-fciesthat are^n
bat Congrcs
day.
- that this ii
ition end si?
nificanee to this
i people; an
d in tho pi
■ofound analysis
which
■ '
n has givej
i us of the sue
■.•b- of the American stru
ggle, we seo the
me:- of this
meeting. I hold that
i to the Amer
ioiru people
; that (host: will
. repre-
:ee in this si
■ontent ; tli.
.t they protest
ry settlement
: that haw been proposed, either by
I quite agree with and was profoundly impressed
by the view taken by Mr. Fret bin gham, representing the third epoch of this struggle—Ihe struggle
with slavery as a form of civilization, if you will
dignify it with that term, as a form of society ; not
ion, but
; andi
pith the
com
ilative -
truth that it i
i to
.Ught, ]
iot by
not simply by
dis-
;,n, but
by the
that c
nd gives character
' It is f
m that the Soc
iety
lythe
■ aih o-
ible
. amnesty and
1 sufira
go, wJk
the n
itional flag 0c
re was a very sad dev(
med, and the girl gai
t the
jpment of the whole m
)k occasion to inquire
her bonnet became
the reason, from whi
learned, and the Yani
;, that he had given tl
3rvant-giil. Nowlw
the an 1.,-sIuvety plaffoim ; I never heard of his
writing anti-slavery poetry ; but I do say that a
to deny the colored man the ballot.
Now let us seek to put an end to the nrejudke
against color; let us be manly, just, democratic,
and Christian, and then the black man will be allowed the rights of a man ; and it uoeds only that,
and especially to give bint the ballot, to make our
country what it ought to be made, the happiest,
and freest, and nohl
(Applause.)
Speech of Weudell Phillips.
Eev. J. T. SaUtoENT, of Boston, one of th
addressed the Uonvet
follow:
. ■
> of -
The fourth' resolution befoi
here is very grout, substance of truth in
ls which my friend Mr. Eemond has
s touching the colored race. Much as
i have been charged with partiality in
our judgment i
ever to close the lips of an American at thi
against acknowledging the marvelous, wh,
expected development of the characteristics
race, provoked by the events of our civil .
It will be a rare and beautiful credit to the
in] the history of this rebellion, that whil.
> the
blican, Copperhead, Secessionist—
uthet to the name of white ; when
outh, we spokeof tho loyalists and
ckwas loyalty, patrlot-
im, and justice, wittiout an epithet. (Applause.)
ante, magnanimity, saveo itieui alike from treason.
nd from that cowardice which takes the name of
obey, and conceals
To be
cealment. They needed m, disguise. In the first
moments of the war they held their peaco.
said that was cowardice, but Port Hudson and Fort
Wagner stopped that charge, and we have th:
I am harking-/' He would not commit hi
pon the Bide of the South, nor upon the aide t
orth, but continued io leii'k. If ihousuVl.s ant
i that direction during those anxious hours i:
power doubled, by that tenderest of all t:
w and Charles Sumu,
. add 50 per cent, to
ipathy, by disfranchh
their power. Lift i
I, he would have passed
The elements wliieh mai
, Wade Hampton, Stephen
1 the J
tan ever. They have a
ir own States to-day than
:nows that in settiim the
. force
fail are.
traliKO them, then nationality
20,000,000 of loyal people have r,
from this war to bear Jefferson Davis, then nationality is a failure. Adjourn the dispute, and wait
for a better generation. But we have elements, we
have sutlicient strength to ignore Jefferson Davis
and ii thousand like him. if the;: still live; and that
strength i-. justice. (Applause.)
.Now let us face Ihe whole problem. Let us open
our <
;yes wide, and take
in
the whole country.
You
can neither get rid of m
>r can you change the
q leading min
dst
if the South. Battle
iof
men. Nations do not
live ,
ir change by battles :
they live and change by
epochs. The wave ui national change is like the
wave of the generation thirty years ago. God
does not change life-long prejudices, but he takes
room for the fresh young truth to grow. We have
for that before the 5,000,000 of poisoned
aen and treble-p
he midst of the i
e-takei
l fo an
think there is a little mistake in appreciating tho motives of the South on this question. I do not quite believe that die South dreads
simply negro suffrage. It is not there that the
South meets the bight of the question. A negro
voting once a year at the town polling booth, is not,
after all, such an inexpressible evil. It might be
tolerated with a gig-antic and heroic effort of magnanimity. The bight comes later in the programme. Four hundred thousand negroes in
South Carolina., with every adult possessing a vote,
3 at
Columbia
. (Applause.)
l'-T-
not only ,
hunting among
colored blood,
ghei
.- Senators u
Slicers, colo
.nd Kepresentatr
red men. The S
. Columbia
to take his seat
'rat
sifting bes
nd there mi
de him. When
ist be white and i
. a legislative committee
the prop,;:
- the
emselves of the :
railroad contra
ctors, they take ]